City Of God Sociology

The majority of adolescents think that they don’t need any adults to help guide them as they grow up due to the fact that they have lacked an influential adult in their life but this mindset ultimately gets these kids nowhere because the lack of support from adults can be what impedes their growth. This can be seen in Luis J. Rodriguez’s, “Always Running”, which follows his life as a young Mexican-American L.A. gang member in the 60’s. Throughout the book, readers can see the lack of involvement from adults in Rodriguez’s life and even being the cause of his constant struggles in his life. That is until Chente, who works at a community center to support young gang members, entered his life and became one of the most impactful people to get

How well Wes Moore describes the culture of the streets, and particularly disenfranchised adolescents that resort to violence, is extraordinary considering the unbiased perspective Moore gives. Amid Moore’s book one primary theme is street culture. Particularly Moore describes the street culture in two cities, which are Baltimore and the Bronx. In Baltimore city the climate and atmosphere, of high dropout rates, high unemployment and poor public infrastructure creates a perfect trifecta for gang violence to occur. Due to what was stated above, lower income adolescent residents in Baltimore are forced to resort to crime and drugs as a scapegoat of their missed opportunities.

According to a study by Dr. Michael Carlie, fifty to eighty percent of gang members come either from a single-parent home, or one in which no parent resides. If the parent is not available to provide structure, supervision, support, and caring during this crucial time of adolescent development, teens may turn to gang participation to fulfill their needs. In Reymundo Sanchez’s memoir Once A King, Always A King, Sanchez takes the reader through his struggle to rebuild his life outside of the Latin Kings, and his motivation to move beyond his disgusting past of drugs and violence. He also talks about losing close ones and friends due to resisting old habits.

Kids in the most disadvantaged neighborhood, with low family resources, bad schools, and neighborhoods characterized by violence are the ones who are being punished unfairly and are not given second chances. This is because of the discrimination and the bias of the criminal justice system against poor African-American communities, which represent a concentrated disadvantage in that case. Moreover it affirms the theory that the poor are more likely to get to prison because there is a bias in arrest such as the neighborhood social class that affects the presence of the police and their arrests. In that case 6th street is considered a neighborhood that represents communities that are disadvantaged, and therefore the presence of police is greater than necessary. Instead of having the resources from outside to ameliorate the conditions of the neighborhood and improve schools or academic institutions, the efforts and resources are being invested in the war against crimes, but without giving an alternative solution for their

Sanchez-Jankowski recognizes the gap in such an understanding because he saw the gang as a subjective system which gave residents an understanding of their neighbourhood’s social world, a sense of pride in belonging to their specific social fragment, a greater sense of solidarity within their group, a

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Many of the boys pretended that negative interactions and stereotyping did not affect them, but their bravo personas only masked the fear inside. Fear made the boys feel weaker and less masculine, so they would deviate from social norms to regain respect and dignity among their peers and for themselves. Routine patterns of punishment eventually lead the boys to develop an altered view of thoughts, beliefs, and ways of behaving in order to survive the tough life set them. Chapter two concentrates on the history of Oakland, incarceration rates, youth systems of control, and the boy’s resistance to punishment and brutalization. The Oakland ghetto consists of a multiracial community, predominantly African-American and Latino, that are equally targeted and brutalized by police

The narrator and the other gang members have claimed a territory. The fact that they are claiming where they are going to station themselves has officially made them more a gang. Reading this book will help you understand why gang violence is necessary to be taught in schools, so then teenagers don’t end up getting into bad

Next, in paragraph 2, “I started in a low-level gangs, stealing, peddling goods, getting into fights, gambling and bullying other kids.” This quote explains that even in the lower level gangs there is still a lot of crime and bad bad stuff happening. After that, in paragraph 1, “I was just 8 years old when I got into the gang life. It was around the time I witnessed my first shooting…” This shows that the gang life is violent even when a member is young, death and other bad things still happen.

.for the days they missed recovering from violent attacks and used this as justification to expel them from school” (Rios, 6). The negative interactions from these adult figures in control further adds to the youths’ sense of defeat and hopelessness. The prejudice these teens face makes it difficult for them to lead a better lifestyle, forcing them to turn back towards criminal antics because they are not accepted anywhere

A. I learned a lot of things while i watched the documentary on the MS-13s. They do a lot of things that i never knew people could do. There are so many members in this gang and everyone wants to be higher and higher up each day. A good term from our sociology book that i connected to the documentary was Competition. Competition in biology and sociology, is a contest between two or more organisms, animals, individuals, groups, etc., for territory, a niche, for a location of resources, for resources and goods, for mates, for prestige, for recognition, for awards, for group or social status, or for leadership.

This can lead to child drug dealers or drug addicts as well as fighting to survive at an early age. Children that grow up in the streets tend to gravitate towards the streets. With a lack of strong and conventional support from their families, poor, inner-city youth have no choice but to join the street culture. They are raised with the idea that in order to survive, one must fight for his or her own life, especially when they are taught to fight at a young age. With no one to raise them correctly or show them differently, street culture is all that poor, inner-city black youth

In the subculture that with see in the movie with the gang members it seems that they have normalized the violence in their community. They talk about killing their enemies and getting rid of them to show them who runs their neighborhood and also when they plan on killing both Zavala and Taylor. They show no remorse or any fear at the moment of doing the acts. Even though they are just theories part of them can relate to what happens in the movie and it helps explain up to some extent why the perpetrators did what they

As a result, an adolescent who was raised in this environment would have difficulty staying out of trouble and avoiding becoming a thug. The norm of his neighborhood was ultimately to become a thug who commits crimes. In contrast, if a person goes against the norm they were considered “good boys

The film focuses on individuals growing up in an area Louisville, Kentucky is known for crimes, drug/ alcohol abuse, behavioral issues. Living in an area with negative energy, where violence and anger is and the outcome of these issues. Individuals are locked up for non-violent crimes such as skipping school. The narrator within the film states, “getting locked up is a part of everyday life.” Meaning the chances of getting locked up within that community can be high/ risky.